Email Author Jim Schutze

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Dallas Morning News Tippy-Toes Away"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 20, 2011

  "How Not to Humiliate Yourself as a Journalist"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Picking Apart The Dallas Morning News' Smug Sense"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 6, 2011

  "Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published May 5, 2011

  "The Trinity River's 'Standing Wave' Crashes into Reality"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published July 7, 2011

  "So John Wiley Price Really Wanted Some Land..."

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published September 29, 2011

  "Lowering the Bars"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published May 27, 2010

  "Into the Wild"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 11, 2010

  "Hammer Time"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 1, 2010

  "Mr. Unknown"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2010

  "Low Riders"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published May 27, 2010

  "Into the Wild"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 23, 2010

  "Return to Sender"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published October 28, 2010

  "Going to Extremes"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Off Course"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published October 15, 2009

  "Guilty"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Whitewashing Reality"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 24, 2009

  "Irony City"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Whitewashing Reality"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 26, 2009

  "The Fall Guy"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 21, 2008

  "Eat My Dirt"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 31, 2008

  "What's in a Nombre"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 17, 2008

  "No Nature for Old Men"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published November 20, 2008

  "What Chutzpah!"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published October 4, 2007

  "City Hall's Same Sick Story"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published November 18, 2004

  "Call 911"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published November 18, 2004

  "Call 911"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published May 19, 2005

  "Bozo Rules"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published June 16, 2005

  "Stuff It"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published January 13, 2005

  "Garbage to You"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published April 7, 2005

  "Mayorzilla"

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2012 Stories by Jim Schutze

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  FEATURED STORY

  A Week After They Found Pig Blood in the Trinity, Still So Very Many Questions

  published Jan 27, 2012

  The back and forth between the city and Columbia Packing Pant on the January 19 river-of-pig-blood incident is fascinating on a bunch of levels. If nothing else, it would seem to raise urgent question... More >>

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  This AKA Aaron Michaels Stuff Is Not Making Me Feel Terribly Homeland-Secure

  published Jan 25, 2012

  Did anybody else feel less than homeland-secure after yesterday's fandango with the Dallas County Homeland Security Advisory Committeer First, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price tried to re... More >>

• Bill Fisher is the Good Guy, So Why Are We Making Him Pay?

  published January 26, 2012

  The worst thing that happens in this town, and it happens on a cyclical basis, is the official Scarlet Letter shunning of some person who did... More >>

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  Clay Jenkins Hits the Wall in the Appointment of New Black Panther Party Founder

  published Jan 24, 2012

  It looks like Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, long a puppet of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, finally has hit the Price wall. Jenkins has stopped action on the appointment of Price pro... More >>

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  Blood in the Trinity, Crow on My Plate and Respect for the Caraways

  published Jan 23, 2012

  Two years ago I toured the area around Columbia Packing Company on East 11th Street in Oak Cliff with city council member Dwaine Caraway and his wife, state Representative Barbara Mallory Caraway. The... More >>

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  Governor Gaffe Comes Back to Texas, Wounded But No Wiser

  published Jan 20, 2012

  Wait a minute. Forgive me, but I must misuse and abuse a bit of Dylan Thomas here to suggest we should not let Rick Perry go quite so gentle into that good night. I'm reading a lot of crap about how h... More >>

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  Zebra Mussel Threat to Texas Lakes is Misunderestimated

  published Jan 18, 2012

  Three weeks ago I wrote a column for the paper about a plan to pump drinking water from Lake Texoma even though the lake is contaminated by zebra mussels, an invasive species that can annihilate other... More >>

• Who'll Stop the Rain? Rick Perry's Pals, That's Who.

  published January 19, 2012

  Rick Perry wasn't able to seize private property and build a Spanish toll road four football fields wide from Mexico to Oklahoma. He's probably... More >>

• Perry Thinks Loving Tea Party Means You Can Go Home Again. Oh, He'll Go Home, All Right.

  published Jan 17, 2012

  If Rick Perry still considers himself a candidate for president, then I get to consider him one too. I think I'm justified in remarking on the 180-degree turnabout Gov. Perry has made in his basic wor... More >>

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  Is Bankrupt AMR About To Throw its Employees Under the Planer

  published Jan 13, 2012

  Stories in today's Dallas Morning News and New York Times report that American Airlines could try to ditch some or all of its pension plans during its trip through bankruptcy court. We should all ha... More >>

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  On Flood Control, Dallas Better Think Nationally or Be Ready to Drown Locally

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Man, talk about whistling past the graveyard. At yesterday's Dallas City Council meeting, council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso asked good questions about the city's flood control plans, and ... More >>

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  Calatrava Bridge: Just a Cheap, Pretty Bauble Hiding an Old, Ugly Scheme to Steal Our Park

  published Jan 11, 2012

  In all of the hoopla over the impending opening of the new Calatrava bridge over the Trinity River, please remember what that bridge really stands for and why it's there. It stands for the ruination o... More >>

• Price Corruption Probe: You're All Black. Go to Jail?

  published January 12, 2012

  Everybody I talk to thinks the FBI Dallas County corruption investigation will produce indictments soon. The rumor is that the targeted alleged... More >>

• DPD Says Crime in Dallas Took Yet Another Big Drop. So, Are People Getting Betterr

  published Jan 10, 2012

  A very long time ago when I was a young police reporter, I asked a grizzled homicide cop why he thought someone had slashed the young woman lying dead before us into one big bowl of Frito pie. He thou... More >>

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  Can City Council Tell the Difference Between a Photo Op and a Hole in the Groundr

  published Jan 09, 2012

  Drive around Dallas -- not the suburbs, Dallas -- and what do you seer You see a nice kind of new well-kept Dallas toward the northern end of the city, with a few glitches here and there. But anywhere... More >>

• Korean Shamrock Owner Accused of Racism Could Improve His Luck by Talking

  published Jan 06, 2012

  Still can't get past the lawyer for the owner of the boycotted Shamrock gas station I wrote about yesterday. Busy. Says he'll call me back later. I called him this morning to say I still need to hear ... More >>

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  Live, From Atop Schutze's Head, a Battle Between Races at Local Convenience Store

  published Jan 05, 2012

  Well, I think my hat-cam is going to change my life. Now I can take you along on my daily adventures. You don't especially want to gor Come on. Try it. Be a sport. What I do every day may not be high ... More >>

• Dallas Farmer's Market: Cut it Off at the Roots

  published January 5, 2012

  Here's an idea. Nuke the Dallas Farmers Market. Seriously. Blow it up. Scrape it. Give the poor thing a decent burial, and then start from... More >>

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  Up East Dallas Without a Paddle

  published Jan 04, 2012

  Very mixed feelings about the city council briefing coming up this morning on proposed East Dallas storm-water projects. On the one hand, my paranoia is confirmed, which is always satisfying. On the o... More >>

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  Here's a New Year's Resolution For City Hall: Stop Trying to Screw With the Trinity River

  published Jan 03, 2012

  Over the holiday weekend I spent a few very enjoyable hours on the Trinity River with Trinity Rivers Expeditions outfitter and canoe guide Charles Allen. We paddled from Trinity River Mountain Creek ... More >>